Washing-machine heater



Jan. 22, 924.

J. A. BRIED "WASHING MACHINE HEATER Filed Sept. 19. 1921 IL Illlllllilll W v lllllllllwi! INVENTOR.

Patented Jan. 22, 1924.

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JUL-IEN A. BRIED, F OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF T0 SAMUEL L. ROGERS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

WASHING-MACHINE IBIEA'JPER.

Application filed September 19, 1921.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JULIEN A. Bruno, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and 1'; State of California, have invented new and useful Improvement in the Construction and Arrangement of a Washing-Machine Heater, of which the following is a specification and which is illustrated in the in accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to heating arrangements and safety guards in household washing machines or clothes boilers, and has for its object the protection of the operator against fumes and flame from, gas or other, burners used beneath such devices, and yet allow of easy accessibility to the burner or bottom of the washing machine tank for cleaning, lighting, etc.

In the drawing accompanying this application Fig. 1 shows a frame supporting a washing machine tank or clothes boiler, in side elevation, with my arrangement of gas burner and heat guards in position beneath the tank. The lower part of this figure is shown in cross section.

Fig. 2 shows the front elevation of the device, and Fig. 3 shows a modification in the method of supporting the front baffle or guard plate.

In Fig. 1 at A is shown an angle iron frame supporting a clothes boiler, or washingmachine tank B. Under the tank is arranged a burner C. At one side; considered the back of the device; is shown a heat guard 1) extending above and below the burner, also a similar guard E is shown at the side away from the observer, and at the front is shown a removable guard F sup plied with a handle G. This front guard is held in place by its upper end being hooked over the supporting rod H, though other means may be employed to support it, such for instance as indicated in Fig. 3, where the guard F has one or two small tongues I stamped out of it, and which hook over the horizontal brace A of the frame. In either arrangement the front guard may be easily unhooked and lowered to get at the burner or tank bottomfor cleaning or lighting, as may be seen.

Fig. 2 gives a complete idea of the arrangement of burner and guards from a front view, but the rear guard D being in Serial No. 501,850.

line with, or directly in back of the front guard F, is not seen.

It will be noted that the guards are on three sides only, and that there is no guard on the left side, this provides a ready path for fumes and heat to ascend and insures that they will there ascend and not around the operator whose position is in front of the device.

The reason for one side being left open for heat and fume ascension, instead of the rear is because these devices are usually placed close to a wall in back, and the rear guard is for the purpose of protecting the wall of the room from fire.

In Fig. 2 the burner C is shown in dotted lines looking through the front guard F and is seen supported at one end on the frame and the other end on a flange of the waste pipe J.

Having thus described my invention I would point out that although burners and heat guards have been used by others under tanks of this kind, they have not, as far as I am aware, been arranged to force the spent heat and. gases in a definite direction, but have been vented on top all around, thus causing great discomfort to the operator through ascending heat and fumes. Nor have the guards been arranged for easy removal to promote accessibility as shown herein, and it is on these features I claim,

1. In a washing machine comprising a wash tank supported on a rectangular frame, a heating burner arranged under said tank, and heat guards arranged on three sides only of said frame with the fourth side left unguarded.

2. In a washing machine comprising a wash tank supported on a frame, a heating burner arranged under said tank, and heat guarding means extending from said tank to a position below said burner extending the major distance around said burner with a minor space left unguarded.

3. In a washing machine comprising a wash tank supported on a frame, a heating burner arranged under said tank, and heat guarding means extending part way only around said burner, a portion of said means being displaceable vertically along said frame.

4:. In a washing machine comprising a wash tank supported on a rectangular frame, heat guards arranged on three sides only ofthe frame, one' of said guards being displa ceable Vertically along said frame.

5. In a Wash boiler comprising a rectangular frame supportinga tank, a burner arranged under said tank to heat said tank, heat guards arranged on three sides only of said frame, one of the guards having a handle and being supported in position to 1 permit of easy removal to afford accessibility to said burner.

JULIEN A. BRIED. Witnesses:

MARGARET E. C. BRIED, M. D. NIoI-IoLs. 

